Yeah-I'm Not Gonna Be Doing That

[daycare]

i have a program that we take books home in a bag each week and do a book exchange . It is so that children and their PARENT, learn to bond together doing something educational. It is supposed to be the foundation of parent and child learning time, which later when they start school equates to HOMEWORK.

I used to be apart of a program that did this through my county called raising a reader, until they lost all of their funding. I wish they would bring that program back.

I agree this lady is coo-coo! so sad that she wants you to do her work, which is meant to be bonding time with her child.....

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[MunchkinWrangler]

Imagine the germs on that thing!!!

[JackandJill]

i have a program that we take books home in a bag each week and do a book exchange . It is so that children and their PARENT, learn to bond together doing something educational. It is supposed to be the foundation of parent and child learning time, which later when they start school equates to HOMEWORK.

I used to be apart of a program that did this through my county called raising a reader, until they lost all of their funding. I wish they would bring that program back.

I agree this lady is coo-coo! so sad that she wants you to do her work, which is meant to be bonding time with her child.....

:dislike:

I do something like this as well! Every week, someone gets to bring home our class "pet" (a stuffed bear), and the parents write what he did with them over the weekend so we can read about it during circle time.

I started sending home "book bags" with the other kids, because some were upset they didn't get to have the pet. The bags have a book, and print out game/activity to do as a family, etc. Sometimes they come back completely untouched, but 90% of the time, parents are reminding their little ones to grab a book bag before they leave for the weekend.

[Controlled Chaos]

I had a DCK have this same "assignment" for preschool.

My kiddo was an older pre-k student though and was perfectly capable of taking care of her own "buddy".

The only thing I did was snap a few cute pictures of DCK and "buddy" doing a couple activities together and shared them via text with the parent.

It wasn't a big deal and added a lot of conversation and 'like' stories to the day. The kids were all inspired to talk about their adventures with pets, friends and family etc. and all the places and things they did together.

Gave us a lot to think about in regards to what we wanted to learn about the next week. I think it's what sparked our Trip Around the World unit.

That sounds adorable and doable.
Its the keeping a written log where I thought - NOPE!

[Baby Beluga]

i have a program that we take books home in a bag each week and do a book exchange . It is so that children and their PARENT, learn to bond together doing something educational. It is supposed to be the foundation of parent and child learning time, which later when they start school equates to HOMEWORK.

I used to be apart of a program that did this through my county called raising a reader, until they lost all of their funding. I wish they would bring that program back.

I agree this lady is coo-coo! so sad that she wants you to do her work, which is meant to be bonding time with her child.....

:dislike:

This was my thought too. I have heard of schools doing program like this, and I think they are fine - when the parents and child are the ones participating. What baffled me was the mom asking her child's provider to do her work for her.

[daycare]

This was my thought too. I have heard of schools doing program like this, and I think they are fine - when the parents and child are the ones participating. What baffled me was the mom asking her child's provider to do her work for her.

I agree, I don't think that its a providers place to have to do what the parent is supposed to. BUT I think that the parent might have the idea that it is ok to ask the provider because a lot of places advertise will assist or tutor your child in homework.

Around here just about any school age place that takes school kids advertises that they assist with homework help. As a parent when my kids were little, I wanted to do homework with them, because that way I knew where my child was academically and where they needed help. It was no surprise to me when I went into their parent teacher conference where they were having issues.

in today's society it seems that there are a lot of "we will parent for you" type services.

yeah, I would be upset if a parent came to me and asked me to work for them, Nope!!

[daycarediva]

i have a program that we take books home in a bag each week and do a book exchange . It is so that children and their PARENT, learn to bond together doing something educational. It is supposed to be the foundation of parent and child learning time, which later when they start school equates to HOMEWORK.

I used to be apart of a program that did this through my county called raising a reader, until they lost all of their funding. I wish they would bring that program back.

I agree this lady is coo-coo! so sad that she wants you to do her work, which is meant to be bonding time with her child.....

:dislike:

We do the same! The kids get to chose a tote bag with book that we have been reading/just read together, and whatever activity goes along with it (sometimes just puppets, activity, game, etc) They LOVE it and it gets them to connect with their parents.

This sounds like homework. As a parent, I would have snapped a photo of the stuffed animal and dck on the porch leaving for school, wrote a note about what the dck says they did that day, and then snapped a photo of dck in the car with stuffed animal riding home. Stuffed animal would have come with me UNLESS I ASKED the provider if the kid could bring it.

[childcaremom]

Today mom arrived with preschool dcg3. She had a stuffed puppy in a baby sling on her and a tote bag with accessories and a notebook. Mom informed me that "cupcake" is a preschool "pet" that each child takes home and completes a paper on his activities and keeps a log. He needs fed every four hours. A nap. Played with and read a book (which was in bag). Considering that dcg is 3-that means someone would be keeping the log for her and reading the story to cupcake. Mom spent a good five minutes explaining the duties of caring for Cupcake. She was dead serious about me doing this horsecrap for a STUFFED ANiMAL! Looked her straight in the eye and said "yeah-that's not gonna happen".

I love your response to dcm.

I would have emphasized the home part to her.

[Pestle]

"Do you think her preschool teacher would help her with a time-consuming project that I assigned her?"

[nanglgrl]

I do something like this as well! Every week, someone gets to bring home our class "pet" (a stuffed bear), and the parents write what he did with them over the weekend so we can read about it during circle time.

I started sending home "book bags" with the other kids, because some were upset they didn't get to have the pet. The bags have a book, and print out game/activity to do as a family, etc. Sometimes they come back completely untouched, but 90% of the time, parents are reminding their little ones to grab a book bag before they leave for the weekend.

I do the same thing and have a example activity related to the book that they can do as well. I use the plastic bags that costumes and wigs come in during Halloween time because they're sturdy and have little buttons on them.

[Mom2Two]

Yup, sounds like HOMEwork.

Yes, my thoughts exactly. HOMEwork.

[daycare]

"Do you think her preschool teacher would help her with a time-consuming project that I assigned her?"

hhaahahha that is a good one. Wonder if the preschool teacher even knows that mom is trying to pawn her parenting responsibility off on the daycare provider.